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Statuette (Back)

Statuette (Back)
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Front

Subject
Religious.

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Aalst, Hospitaal van de Zusters Augustinessen (Augustinian Convent)

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Ivory

Height: 280mm

Standing Virgin and Child; Virgin holding a stem of flowers in her right hand; Christ seated on left arm; naked Christ; crown.

Ghent 1975: Tournai or Ghent (?), c. 1370-1380.
Cologne 1978: Ghent, c. 1380.
Steyaert 1994: Flanders (Bruges or Ghent?), late 14th century.
Rotterdam 2012: Bruges or Ghent (?), c. 1400.


Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Thin vertical cracks.

Bibliography
P. Bergmans, J. Casier, L'Art ancien dans les Flandres. Mémorial de l'Exposition rétrospective organisée à Gand en 1913, 3 vols, (Bruxelles and Paris, 1914), I, p. 64, pl. XXXIV.
Gent, 1000 jaar Kunst & Cultuur, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten- Museum de Bijloke-Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, 1975, I, no. 533.
Die Parler und der Schöne Stil 1350-1400. Europäische Kunst unter den Luxemburgern, Ein Handbuch zur Ausstellung des Schnütgen-Museums in der Kunsthalle Köln, 4 vols (Cologne, 1978-1980), I, p. 86.
J. W. Steyaert, Late Gothic Sculpture: The Burgundian Netherlands, exhibition catalogue, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1994, no. 94.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, p. 72, fig. 5.


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